The Opelousas courier., 1887-04-02
Items of Interest.

The balloon for the Paris exposition of 1889
will carry 100 persons.
Rayne has purchased road machine and is
improving her streets.
A meat and fruit canning factory is among
the probabilities for Thibodaux.
A Michigan syndicate has purchased 1000
acres of pine land in Vernon parish.
Fashion has decreed that bangs must go. or
at least be reduced to merest frizZes.
At Brenham, Texas, the new soap factory of
the Brenham Oil Mill is in operation.
Jay Gould owns 17O, 600 acres in the six par
ishes of Sabine, Vernon, Winn, Grant, Cata-
houla and Rapides.
The President has appointed Alexis E. Le-
NEE, of Louisiana, to be receiver OF pubic
moneys at Natchitoches.
Peanut john" who held Booths horse on
the night he killed Lincoln, is living in ShFeVe-
port, and is known as Mike"
Alexandria Democrat The Louisiana
State Medical Association will meet 10 AleX-
andria ON the 18th Of April.
Gen, Nichols has accepted the invitation
of the East Feliciana Memorial Association to
deliver the address at Clinton. April9
Gov. McEuery has issued his proclamation
calling attention to the Colored State Fair to
be held In New Orleans November 7.
The death is announced at Salem, ILL.,. OF
Col Isaac S. Warmoth, father OF ex-Gov.
Henry C. Warmoth, in bis seventy-hrst year.
The Rayne Signal has started a subscription
list for the erection Of a school building, ana
with commendable generosity has headed 1t
with $50. 1
Alexandria Democrat: We want to see
Senator Eustis returned to the .. S. Senate
ne guits us to 1T" No better man for the
place could be found in Louisiana.
The Chicago county clerk has returned the
marriage certificate of Nina Van 1andt aud
the Anarchist Spies to Justice Englebard, de-
claring the marriage illegal.
1t is stated that forty'seven persohs-ons
of whom ia a woman-have been arrested Tor
| connection with the recently discovered plot
| to assassinate the Gear of Russia.
| prominent New Orleans mercantile estab-
| lisbment has offered to invest S25,OO0 IN
| bank at Alexandria, upon the condition that
/ the citizens will take stock in the enterprise.
| Buffalo gnats are causing, q great deal OF
trouble in Richland and Ouachita parlshes.
| In the lattsr parish nineteen horses ana
mules have been killed by the pests. Hereto
fore it has been an accepted theory that the
pnats only come after overhows; their ap-
pearance this year explodes the idea
Postmaster L. Davis, of the town of Solar,
jackson county, ILL.,, receives the moderate
salary of 10 cents year. The Postmaster or
Peck, Ills, got 80 cents last year, while the
Postmaster of Lear, Ark, got 81 cents: 1t Is
said that there are more than lo,uuo Foss-
masters who receive no more than $40 year,
and 10000 who receive about - year.
No oindustry in the United States has been
more generously supplied with capital tnan
that for building machinery for COMPRISING
bales of cotton. Probably ninety five per
cent of each crop undergoes COMPRISING: n or
say 6,200,000 bales out of crop. OF o'oo9,VoSV
The freight charges on winch propaoly
amount to thirty i've million dollars ano com
pressing to nearly four millions.
Senator j. B. Eustis arrived in New Or
leans Oh the 23d ult., in excellent health and
! spirits. Since his return to the Senate he haf
| constantly added to his enviable reputation al
an orator, sound thinker and patriotic states
man and Democrat. Mr.. Eustis is represen
tative gentleman of whom the State may vel
be proud, and he occupies prominent posi-
, tion among the public men OF the country
Ravne Signal: NJ. David MeCuiiogh o
! New Orleans, is on a visit in town, seeking 1
. location in our parish.-Jessie Beard, Esq, o
Staunton, Nebraska, spent several DAYS II
town this week.-Messrs Eugene b. Hunt
: John Mang and wife and Joseph Thoman, 0
New York, arrived here last Thursday. AM
are looking at the country with view OF ~
! eating .-Messrs D. Aleshire and j. A. Wi
: liams, of St. Paul Neb., spent several days Il
! | town this week. looking at the country, VIII
! which they were we'll pleased and locate
claims
Rayne Signal: Ii is surprising to see hoy
| rapidly the land throughout the parish IS bt
ing taken up. We had occasion to go to Ope
| otisas on Saturday last and saw no less tina
ten new enclosures along the road betWee
: here and Churchpoint, which were made du
I ing the last six weeks, and IN every other q
r erection it is going about the same rate. A
. the rate it is now being taken up by settler
it will not he many years before the pnDs
roads throughout the parish will be lined D
o farms-during the week over twenty'nVe pa
ties have located in the parish.
= N. o. Picayune: On Wednesday evening
March 49, occurred the marriage OF Mi'
Emily Lucas and Mr.. Abraham Leveson. - -
wedding took place at the residence OF tL
!. brides father, Mr.. r. Lucas, and was hapT
>. and ioyous affair throughout The love
:, bride was attended by Miss Julia Lucas, Mi
Henrietta Jacobs, Of OpelOusas, and Mi
Rachel Leveson, as bridesmaids, while I'll
Tosenh ii, Gutman and Mr.. Samuel Leveso
Numerous handsome and costly presen
10 were bestowed upon the happy couple VII
is good wishes and hearty congratulations
vicksburg Herald: The prohibitionists al
iouor dealers of Texas are getting ready Il
8 II fierce contest. A constitutional amendmen
f prohibiting the manufacture and sale OF INTO
, ieating liquors, is to be voted upon ln Angus
The nrohibitionists have declared they W
spend $500, 900 on the campaign, and nave
gaged such disting guished orators as Ex'Go
4 St. John. of Kansas Gen. Clinton b. Fish.
:, New York Mrs. Sallie Il. Chaplin, of Chart'
'n ton, s. C., and others. The liquor dealers pl
at pose to raise $3.50, 900, to be supplemented
an equal amount from the Northern brewe
and distlllers.
l- Tid.Bits At Lenten Service: Miss Molly
l's "Come in our pew, Kate" Miss Kate
no; come in onrs We've got such nice co co
fortable high Neutrality-suspicious.. Ihey DO
:, strain your polonaise . bit"
na 10 The plan of throwing bridge, oyer = :
ks Strait Of Messina, that separates Sicily frt
ZEE Ttalv. will, when eonsummated, be one OF t
10 most striking feats of modern englneeril
The place selected is where the channel
two and one half miles wide and three h'
lie dred and sixty one feet deep, and TWO pl
5C will support a viaduet of steel rails 20
haight Of three hundred and twenty-ele
feet above the water
~. We quote from the New Orleans CITY 11
'nt ~ the following response to correspondent
o. O. fhat uaper who asked what steps are nee
" sary 10 present the claim of widow OF o NJ
-ao no lean veteran for pension For the pres
sag there ia no immediate chance OF getting
.nension lists made out, owing TO the IaiiuEe
I,nn0ress to furnish the Bureau with the az
We luteIy necessary clerical force. SO notn
ar will be attempted at the Department uhtl.
ter Congress meets again. In 1ne MoanI1 2
address q letter to the Conmissloner Oh
sions, Washington D. c., and ask for tne
~. -. eular of Instructions to applicants "niou
az been officially prepared
telegram dated New Iberia, Marcn
Esays A number of cur uoneyed cisizens
re- organizing national bank Q STOCK cor
~ nv is taking steps to erect handsome oE
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